Trailer round-up: ‘Hotel Transylvania’ & ‘Brave’ [Update: ‘This Is 40’ & ‘Prometheus’]

The next movie from Sony Pictures Animation is Hotel Transylvania, and Adam Sandler is Dracula. Here’s a nice and tidy synopsis:

Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world’s most famous monsters — Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more — to celebrate his daughter Mavis’s 118th birthday. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem — but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.

The talented voice cast includes Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, David Koechner, Cee Lo Green, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, and David Spade. Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of popular animated TV series like Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and most recently Star Wars: The Clone Wars, is directing. Hotel Transylvania hits theatres in 3D on September 28.

Now jump after the break for another look at Pixar’s Brave.

It’s getting close; Brave is under a month from theatrical release. Turn up the hype by watching might very well be the final full length trailer for Pixar’s latest. The synopsis lies below:

Merida is a skilled archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor. Determined to carve her own path in life, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the uproarious lords of the land: massive Lord MacGuffin, surly Lord Macintosh and cantankerous Lord Dingwall. Merida’s actions inadvertently unleash chaos and fury in the kingdom, and when she turns to an eccentric old Witch for help, she is granted an ill-fated wish. The ensuing peril forces Merida to discover the meaning of true bravery in order to undo a beastly curse before it’s too late.

Brave is out June 22.

Update: Here’s a trailer for Judd Apatow’s first movie he wrote and direct since 2009’s Funny People. The comedy is described as a “sort-of-sequel” to Apatow’s Knocked Up since it stars characters from that movie including Katherine Heigl’s sister Debbie played by Leslie Mann and her husband Pete played by Paul Rudd. Mann’s real-life children Maude and Iris also return to play her kids and Jason Segel is back as well. Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd (both from Bridesmaids) round out this all-star cast.

This Is 40 comes out December 21.

Here’s the international trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Out June 8.

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